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informs potential persons who are to 

respond to the collection of information 

that such persons are not required to 

respond to the collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: Recordkeeping for Employment 

and Training Program Activity Report 

and Requests for Additional 100 Percent 

Funding. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0339. 

Summary of Collection: The Balanced 

Budget Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105–33), 

modified the Employment and Training 

(E&T) Program so that States’ efforts are 

now focused on a particular segment of 

the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP) population—ablebodied adults without dependents 

(ABAWDs). 

Requests for Additional E&T Funds: 7 

CFR 273.7(d)(1)(i)(D) provides that if a 

State agency will not expend all of the 

funds allocated to it for a fiscal year, 

FNS will reallocate unexpended funds 

to other State agencies during the fiscal 

year or the subsequent fiscal year as 

FNS considers appropriate and 

equitable. After FNS makes initial E&T 

allocations, under 7 CFR 273.7(d)(1)(i), 

State agencies may request additional 

E&T funds if needed. FNS will 

reallocate available funds (e.g., funds 

that are unallocated or funds that are 

allocated but will not be spent) in a fair 

and equitable manner. 

Retention and Custody of Records. 

Under 7 CFR 277.12 (1) and (2), all 

financial records, supporting 

documents, statistical records, 

negotiated contracts, and all other 

records pertinent to program funds shall 

be maintained for three years from the 

date of submission of the annual 

financial status report or if any 

litigation, claim, or audit is started 

before the expiration of the three-year 

period, the applicable records shall be 

retained until these have been resolved. 

Need and Use of the Information: FNS 

will review requests about their E&T 

programs so that the Department can 

monitor State performance to ensure 

that the program is being efficiently and 

economically operated. Without the 

information, FNS would be unable to 

make adjustments or allocate 

exemptions in accordance with the 

statute. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 53. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Occasionally; 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 50. 

Rachelle Ragland-Greene, 

Acting Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03173 Filed 2–14–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2024–0002] 

National Advisory Committee on 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods: 

Committee and Charter Renewal 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to renew the 

Committee and its charter. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, this 

notice is announcing the intention of 

the USDA to renew the committee for 

the National Advisory Committee on 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods 

(NACMCF) and its charter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Kristal Southern, Designated Federal 

Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA), Food Safety and Inspection 

Service (FSIS),1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Room 1128, Washington, 

DC 20250–3700. Telephone number: 

(202) 937–4171. Email: NACMCF@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The NACMCF is a discretionary 

advisory committee that was established 

in 1988 by the Secretary of Agriculture 

after consulting with the Secretary of 

the U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services in response to the 

recommendations of two external 

organizations. The National Academy of 

Sciences recommended an interagency 

approach to microbiological criteria 

since various federal, State, and local 

agencies are responsible for food safety. 

Also, the U.S. House of Representatives 

Committee on Appropriations made a 

similar recommendation in the Rural 

Development, Agriculture, and Related 

Agencies Appropriation Bill for fiscal 

year 1988. 

The NACMCF provides impartial 

scientific advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary of Agriculture and the 

Secretary of Health and Human Services 

on public health issues relative to the 

safety and wholesomeness of the U.S. 

food supply, including the development 

of microbiological criteria and review 

and evaluation of epidemiological and 

risk assessment data and methodologies 

for assessing microbiological hazards in 

foods. The Committee also provides 

scientific advice and recommendations 

to the Departments of Commerce and 

Defense. The Under Secretary for Food 

Safety, USDA, Dr. Emilio Esteban, is the 

Committee Chair; the Acting Director of 

the Food and Drug Administration’s 

Center for Food Safety and Applied 

Nutrition, Dr. Donald Prater, is the ViceChair; and Dr. Kristal Southern, FSIS, is 

the Designated Federal Officer and 

Director of the NACMCF Secretariat. 

The charter for the NACMCF is 

available for viewing on the FSIS 

website at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

policy/advisory-committees/nationaladvisory-committee-microbiologicalcriteria-foods-nacmcf. 

NACMCF documents and comments 

posted on the FSIS website are 

electronic conversions from a variety of 

source formats. In some cases, 

document conversion may result in 

character translation or formatting 

errors. The original document is the 

official, legal copy. In order to meet the 

electronic and information technology 

accessibility standards in Section 508 of 

the Rehabilitation Act, NACMCF may 

add alternate text descriptors for nontext elements (graphs, charts, tables, 

multimedia, etc.). These modifications 

only affect the internet copies of the 

documents. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, FSIS will 

announce this Federal Register 

publication online through the FSIS 

web page located at: https://www.fsis.

usda.gov/policy/federal-registerrulemaking/federal-register-notices. 

FSIS will also make copies of this 

publication available through the FSIS 

Constituent Update, which is used to 

provide information regarding FSIS 

policies, procedures, regulations, 

Federal Register notices, FSIS public 

meetings, and other types of information 

that could affect or would be of interest 

to our constituents and stakeholders. 

The Constituent Update is available on 

the FSIS web page. Through the web 

page, FSIS is able to provide 

information to a much broader, more 

diverse audience. In addition, FSIS 

offers an email subscription service that 

provides automatic and customized 

access to selected food safety news and 

information. This service is available at: 

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/news-events/ 

news-press-releases/news-feedssubscriptions. Options range from 

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USDA Nondiscrimination Statement 

In accordance with Federal civil 

rights law and USDA civil rights 

regulations and policies, the USDA, its 

agencies, offices, and employees, and 

institutions participating in or 

administering USDA programs are 

prohibited from discriminating based on 

race, color, national origin, religion, sex, 

gender identity (including gender 

expression), sexual orientation, 

disability, age, marital status, family/ 

parental status, income derived from a 

public assistance program, political 

beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior 

civil rights activity, in any program or 

activity conducted or funded by USDA 

(not all bases apply to all programs). 

Remedies and complaint filing 

deadlines vary by program or incident. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means of communication for 

program information (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, American Sign 

Language, etc.) should contact the 

responsible Agency or USDA’s TARGET 

Center at (202) 720–2600 (voice and 

TTY) or contact USDA through the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. To file a program 

discrimination complaint, complete the 

USDA Program Discrimination 

Complaint Form, AD–3027, found 

online at https://www.usda.gov/oascr/ 

how-to-file-a-program-discriminationcomplaint and at any USDA office or 

write a letter addressed to USDA and 

provide in the letter all of the 

information requested in the form. To 

request a copy of the complaint form, 

call (866) 632–9992. Submit your 

completed form or letter to USDA by: 

(1) Mail: U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–9410; (2) fax: (202) 690–7442; 

or (3) email: program.intake@usda.gov. 

USDA is an equal opportunity 

provider, employer, and lender. 

Dated: February 7, 2024. 

Egypt Simon, 

Acting USDA Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03185 Filed 2–14–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

[Docket No. RBS–23–BUSINESS–0028] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Rural Microentrepreneur 

Assistance Program (RMAP); OMB 

Control No.: 0570–0062 

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The United States Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) Rural BusinessCooperative Service announces its’ 

intention to request a revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection and invites comments on this 

information collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by April 15, 2024 to be assured 

of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: https://

www.regulations.gov. To comment, in 

the ‘‘Search’’ box, enter the docket 

number: ‘‘RBS–23–BUSINESS–0028.’’ 

You will be taken to the ‘‘Search 

Results’’ page and a link to the Notice. 

To submit a comment, click on the 

‘‘Comments’’ button under the Notice 

document name (this will be under the 

‘‘Documents’’ tab if not already brought 

there). When you comment, you must 

complete all the required information, 

and include the Agency name and 

docket number. When done 

commenting, select the ‘‘Submit 

Comment’’ button at the bottom of the 

page. Information on commenting is 

available in the ‘‘Commenter’s 

Checklist’’ located at the top of the 

comment page or by viewing the FAQ 

tab. All comments submitted, from all 

sources, will be posted, without change 

to https://www.regulations.gov. 

Comments containing profanity, 

vulgarity, threats, or other inappropriate 

language or content will not be 

considered. The Agency requests that no 

business proprietary information, 

copyrighted information, or personally 

identifiable information be submitted in 

response to this Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Crystal Pemberton, Management 

Analyst, Branch 1, Rural Development 

Innovation Center—Regulations 

Management Division, United States 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, South 

Building, Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 260–8621. Email: 

Crystal.Pemberton@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR part 1320) 

implementing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) requires that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see, 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). This notice identifies the 

following information collection that 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service is 

submitting to OMB as extension to an 

existing collection with Agency 

adjustment. 

Title: Rural Microentrepreneur 

Assistance Program (RMAP). 

OMB Number: 0570–0062. 

Expiration Date of Approval: August 

31, 2024. 

Type of Request: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 2 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Nonprofits, Indian 

Tribes, and Public Institutions of Higher 

Education. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

40. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 11. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours on Respondents: 1907. 

Abstract: The purpose of the RMAP 

program is to support the development 

and ongoing success of rural 

microentrepreneurs and 

microenterprises. Loans and grants are 

made to Microenterprise Development 

Organizations (MDOs) to provide rural 

microentrepreneurs with the skills 

necessary to establish new rural 

microenterprises, to provide continuing 

technical and financial assistance 

related to the successful operation of 

rural microenterprises, and to assist 

with the cost of providing other 

activities and services related to the 

successful operation of MDOs and rural 

microenterprises. The loans establish or 

augment a rural microentrepreneur 

revolving loan fund and the grants 

provide technical assistance and 

training to microenterprises. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 


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